Two top picks emerge for MTA CEO

Two candidates have emerged as the top candidates to lead the Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Veronique "Ronnie" Hakim, interim MTA executive director, and Pat Foye, acting executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. There were about a dozen people considered for the CEO post in the nationwide search, according to Politico New York.

The new leader will be assuming control of an unwieldy transit system with a $15 billion operating budget. Both Hakim and Foye have the experience to lead the agency. Hakim has worked at the MTA for decades and ran NJ Transit, while Foye is a trusted lieutenant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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